Ifs Quote by Robert Rauschenberg

The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible…

— Yves Klein

“The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The role affected…

— Kirk Douglas

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is…

— Barbara Hurd

You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris.

— RZA

...that swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

— Robert Rauschenberg

My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for…

— Annie Leibovitz

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

— Edward Steichen

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

— Robert Breault

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

— Igor Babailov

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

— Blaise Pascal

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

— John Singer Sargent